Description
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org
ITS Vice Presidency Context:
Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) enables the WBG to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable way by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150 locations.
Our vision is to transform how the Bank Group accomplishes its mission through information and technology. In this fast-paced, ever-changing world, the formulation and implementation of the ITS strategy is an ongoing, iterative process of learning and adaptation developed through extensive consultations with business partners throughout the World Bank Group.
ITS shapes its strategy in response to changing business priorities and leverages new technologies to achieve three high-level business outcomes: business enablement, by providing Bank Group units with innovative digital tools and technologies to transform how they deliver value for their clients; empowerment & effectiveness, by ensuring that all Bank Group staff are connected, able to find information, and productive to accelerate the delivery of development solutions globally; and resilience, by equipping the Bank Group to provide risk-based cybersecurity and robust data protection for a global network and a growing cloud platform.
Implementation of the strategy is guided by three core principles. The first is to deliver solutions for business partners that are customer-centric, innovative, and transformative. The second is to provide the Bank Group with value for money with selective and standard technologies. The third principle is to excel at the basics by providing a high performing, robust, and resilient IT environment for the organization.
As a unit within the WB Operations and Corporate (ITSOC), the Data and Analytics unit (ITSDA) provides state-of-art information and technology applications to support the operations of the World Bank Group. Functions provided ensure that the systems meet the business needs of users and external clients to manage business processes for the World Bank. The current technology landscape encompasses Cloud-based data platforms (Azure and AWS), Oracle, SQL Server, Business Objects, Tableau, Cisco Information Server (Composite), SAP BW/Hana, Informatica, .Net, HTML 5, CSS Frameworks, SharePoint and many others. Our plans are to migrate our on-prem data repositories and re-engineer based on new Cloud architectures in the coming years.
Responsibilities:
•Build and design and engineering of data pipelines that are flexible, scalable, secure, and cost effective, both on-premise and in the cloud, to meet the growing needs of the World Bank’s data landscape.
•Maintain accountability of the integrity of the data pipelines and ensure the smooth daily operations to meet various needs such as ensuring the bank’s reporting data are always available with well-established testing protocols and troubleshoot any technical issues that arise.
•Ability to understand and decode mapping of source table to the target structures and transformation logic both on-prem and on Cloud technologies.
•Business knowledge of Operations domain and HR domain and ability to comprehend the intricacies of Business domain and ability to translate them into technical requirements.
•Ability to work closely with the team to design, architecture and security reviews of the data engineering framework and solution are in line with industry best practices, ITS standards and represent good practice.
•Contribute and strive to innovate and establish a cloud-based data engineering framework in ITSDA that will accommodate both “traditional” structured data sources and “non-traditional” data sources, support current and emerging needs.
•Collaborates with analytics and business teams to improve data models that feed business intelligence tools, increasing data accessibility and fostering data-driven decision making across the organization.
•Able to take personal ownership and accountability to meet deadlines and achieve agreed-upon results and has organizational skills to do so.
•Maintain positive, constructive approach to problem-solving internally and during client interactions with focus on timely and accurate issue resolution.
Selection Criteria
•Master's degree with 8 years’ experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience in relevant discipline such as Computer Science.
•Minimum 5 years of experience in each of the following areas: (i) SQL, Python, R or any programming language (ii) Building and maintaining DB applications (iii) Building and troubleshooting pipelines (iv) Log analytics.
•Hands on experience with cloud platforms covering Azure and on-premise platforms covering traditional data management databases, Cloud native tools and virtualization software.
•Good understanding on SAPBW/SAP HANA structures and decoding of business rules to migrate to Modern Cloud platforms.
•Knowledge of advance SQL programming skills to perform complex operations and data programming on large amount of data stored in data warehousing g or lakes.
•Perform ETL(Extract, Transform, Load) operations to transform raw data into a structured format that analysts and data scientists can use for modeling and analysis.
•Proven experience in designing and deploying high performance production services with robust monitoring and logging practices and demonstrated ability to build and interact with large data processing pipelines, distributed data stores, and distributed file systems.
•Ability to participate and collaborate within and across teams in developing options, roadmaps, evaluations, decision frameworks for complex enterprise solutions.
•Deep experience in implementing and maintaining tools such as Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS), Tableau, Tibco Data Virtualization, Collibra, Informatica MDM, Data Bricks, NoSQL Databases, PostgreSQL and Azure technologies.
•Proven experience in evaluating best of the breed tools in Data Management and work closely with the leadership team to come up with pro and cons.
•Actively seeks knowledge needed to complete assignments and shares knowledge with others, communicating and presenting information in a clear and organized manner.
•Proven experience of working and navigating in teams with offshore/onsite model and collaborate across teams to build/maintain complex IT landscapes, and diverse client bases.
•Experience in writing unit/integration tests, work in agile iterative approach towards building products and documents work.
•Experience in implementing processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it.
•Ability to deliver information effectively in support of team or workgroup. Excellent communication, writing/documentation, and facilitation skills.
•Ability to juggle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment, and the maturity to participate in multiple complex programs at the same time in an agile environment.
World Bank Group Core Competencies
The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
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